Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Please sign this petition

Hi!

So the municipality is threatening to take the Principal's villa away from my school, well the IB programme. I've set up a petition at this address:  http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/save-the-villa 
It would be great if you could sign
I've also made a facebook page called Save the Villa so please like that page for updates :)
Thankyou!

Bye banan!

Sunday, 12 January 2014

Photos

Hi!

It seems that none of the photos worked so i'm going to try again....

Helloooooooo

Happy new year from our epic apartment in Uppsala.
I have not written on this blog in a really loooong time. I'm going to try to write once a week from now on. The last month has been very hectic. My sister visited and I went up to my grandparents when my dad was there, though I barely spoke to him (surprise).
I am very excited for the last episode of season 3 of Sherlock TONIGHT. I'm going to need tissues, a lot of tissues.
My room is almost finished now and I might post pictures on here when I'm done.
Oh yeh, it's snowing!
(Btw, all of these photos (and the other photos on this blog) belong to me and are hereby copyrighted. They may not be reproduced without my consent) :)



The words basically mean snow and yeah. It's awesome although the bus I took to IKEA yesterday was delayed by the snow :(
Here are some more photos of beautiful Uppsala covered in snow. Btw, Guernsey we have more snow than during the 'blizzard' last year and we don't even call it a snow storm :p





 

Sunday, 17 November 2013

I'm back

Hi!

I feel as if I haven't posted in waaaay too long.
We don't have snow quite yet but it's getting colder. Some mornings it's icy and other it's wet. I'm terrified that I'm going to fall of my bike on my way to school. Actually, mum is more terrified but she does work at A&E and they get a lot of cyclists who have fallen over.
School is still great. I love the school and the people. The programme is interesting. I'm thinking about my choices for the next two years, for the Diploma Programme. The only subject I'm completely sure about is History Higher. I also want to do English, Swedish and Philosophy. I have to do maths at one of three levels and I need a science. The big question is which subjects to do at higher level. I'm also looking for CAS activities. So far I have scoutleader for service, gym for action, some sort of project involving creativity and one other. So, I'm going to get that done next year.
I am still really happy here. We're moving to our apartment very soon and we're both really happy about it.
I saw that I have over two hours for lunch on tuesday so I have time to strudy. I also finish early on thursday so I might study.
I'm going further north this weekend to visit my grandparents this weekend. I haven't seen them in a long time so I'm happy to be seeing them.
Everyone is getting ready for winter. There are lots of adverts telling people to change the tyres on their cars to winter tyres and we're going to change the tyres on our bikes.
Thankyou for reading this very random post!

Bye banan!

Friday, 25 October 2013

Well Hello

Hi!

Hope you're all doing well. If you're reading this you are awesome and should carry on reading. I started my autumn break today! So relieved because I am veeeeeery tired. I had scout things two weekends in a row and then I got a cold and I had a big math test this week. Also I most probably failed my french test today. Oh well, there has to be a first time for everything.
I am going to London tomorrow and then onwards to Guernsey on sunday. I'm really looking forward to seeing my friends and especially my dad who I haven't seen in over two months. My older sister is here at the moment which is really fun.
What else?
I have a scout shirt now!!!! It's awesome! I was inaugurated as an explorer scout last saturday and as a (help) leader the saturday before. We had a bunch of challenges for our inauguration which included cooking lunch on trangias on a park bench in central Uppsala and cooking tea with water from the river using a trangia on one of the bridges in central Uppsala. We got quite a few strange looks, especially because we had camping rucksacks and were carrying a big pole. It was great!
I am loving being a scout leader. The kids are a bit mental but I like the power and i'm learning a lot. Plus I can use it for CAS next year.

Thankyou for reading. It means a lot to me.

Bye banan!


Wednesday, 9 October 2013

Lösgodis

Hi!

One of the things I missed most when I lived on Guernsey was Swedish food. Guernsey does not have an IKEA so there was no Swedish food available. I've already written about this but there is a serious lack of products for cooking/ baking Swedish food on Guernsey. Having everything available is awesome! Christmas will be great with lots of Swedish food at HOME. For the first time since we moved (apart from last year) I will be spending christmas at home, most probably. My christmas will be in the country that I live in and love.
Anyway, back to the intended topic.......
Lösgodis is this amazing Swedish thing. At all the supermarkets (pretty much) there is a large section with delicious pick and mix sweets. My friends and I have gone to the nearest ICA to our school pretty much every week to buy sweets which we have kept in our lockers and eaten while watching Sherlock in the IB villa. AWESOMENESS!
If you ever visit Sweden you have to try the following sweets; salt sill, polkagrisar, salt lakrits in general, Ahlgrens bilar, gele hallon, hallon båtar.
I can think of quite a few more but I need to get back to studying because I have only managed to do French so far.
I have my first Scout meeting as a kind of leader today. I am really scared.
Wish me luck!

Bye banan!

Saturday, 5 October 2013

Bikes, bikes and more bikes

Hi!

I live in a town called Uppsala. It's a University town with one of the oldest universities in Europe. Lots of students means lots of bicycles! On my way to school it feels like I'm seeing more bicycles than cars which I consider to be a very good thing.
Uppsala has bicycle paths next to the majority of the roads. They are well built and nice to cycle on. It does get confusing in roundabouts and when srossing major roads but i really prefer cycling here compared to Guernsey. There are also paths for cycling in the forest that's close to where I live. I love cycling in the forest. It's just awesome.
I will now take a moment to have a bit of a rant. HELMETS! There are far too many people who do not use helmets. Every day, someone ends up in the hospital as a result of cycling accidents. The ones who wear helmets get considerably less serious injuries. My source: my mum is a nurse at A&E here at the university hospital. PLEASE WEAR A HELMET AND BE CAREFUL IF YOU CYCLE! I know taht it isn't cool but ending up paralysed, in a coma or dead is far worse than enduring not being in the 'cool crowd'.
Rant over.
Next topic: sweets and Swedish food in general.

Bye Banan!

Hello again

Hello!

I am typing this on my school laptop which is really good.
I have not written in way too long but I am back.
I am loving it here in Sweden. At the moment the weather is pretty miserable but it was really nice throughout September until the end. We've already had frost and that makes the pedals really cold when cycling to school. School is good. Scouts is great! I am going away next weekend and was away last weekend with Scouts.
Speaking of cycling; next post will be on that topic!
Check back soon!
I'll try to write more reguarly!

Bye Banan!

Monday, 2 September 2013

Update

Hi!

I know I haven't written enough lately but I've been busy and have not had an ounce of inspiration. School is going really well. I love the school and I've made some new friends. I'm still in contact with my Guernsey buddies and one of them (who has a blog called georgiabrouard@blogspot.com) told me to update this blog. I don't know how much I have said about my school. I go to Katedralskolan in Uppsala. I am doing Pre-DP for the IB at the moment. It's too boring to explain what that is. It's great so far though. This is the third week and my class is really great. We are so international that we could have like a mini-UN. I will now list some of the languages people in my class speak;
Swedish
English
French
Spanish
Italian
Arabic
Flemish (methinks)
Hungarian
Etc.
One of our mentors is a Spanish teacher and he listed the languages he has studied. It involved; Spanish, English, Swedish, French, German, Arabic etc.
My friends are very entertained at the thought of my previous school. It was perhaps slightly different.
My school is named after the big Cathedral. It was called a Katedral when it was built but is now a DomKyrka. Uppsala is the seat of the archbishop of Sweden. All the places with Domkyrkor have bishops but Uppsala has the Archbishop. 'Cos we the best. My friends claims that Uppsala is a suburb of Stockholm because Stockholms local traffic runs trains to Uppsala. Meh. I don't agree but anyway. I'm meeting up friends after school on Thursday when we finish at 11.20. We start at 9.00 and finish at 11.20 every other Thursday. The other weeks we have lab sessions and then I finish at like 13.30. I love that timetable. It would be unheard of at my old school. Mwahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I don't really have anything else to say. Well I do but I don't think I should treat you to an essay like I did with my friends yesterday. They were amused.

Bye banan!

Monday, 26 August 2013

Results

Hi!

I got my GCSE results last thursday emailed to me. Note the poor grammar. I have my A* in English language now. I don't need to use proper grammar. I am very happy to have achieved 1A*, 7As and 2Bs.
Hope everyone receiving results did well.

Bye banan!

Update

Hi!

So I haven't been on here for ages. Sorry!
School Is awesome and so is Sweden in general. I love it here!
I was at a friend's house this past weekend which was great.
Swedish lessons are fun. We have been doing runes and the general history of the language. It's really interesting.
My class is epically international.
There are people who have lived in Bosnia, Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, Russia etc.
I have the same physics book as last year. It will be pretty boring i'm sure.

Bye banan!

Monday, 19 August 2013

First day at school

Hi!

Today was my first day at gymnasiet. I will be doing the IB programme.
The school I go to is enormous. IB is not the only programme. There is also a humanities programme, a science programme, a children and free time programme and a social sciences programme. There are three year groups so you can see that it's a big school.
I was really nervous. I saw that some people already knew each other which made me even more nervous. My class is great though. The girls outnumber the boys. Our mentors seem really nice too. We got our timetables today. We start and finish at different times every day which is cool. I don't know what else to say at the moment so.....

Bye banan!

Sunday, 18 August 2013

Nervous excitement

Hi!

I start school tomorrow. Exciting! I've got all the stuff that I need, hopefully. 🎒
I'm happy because I've been looking forward to starting gymnasiet for ages.
I get to study Swedish for the first time since year 1, which should be interesting. 📝
Only one of my three fountain pens is working at the moment. Very annoying. ✒ I think most people use pencils anyway ✏
Wish me luck for tomorrow!

Bye banan!

Thursday, 15 August 2013

Home

Hi!

I got to Sweden yesterday :)
I have now sorted out my room at the house we're staying at for the next couple of months. I've found a few shelves and drawers in various places for my clothes and my suitcases are under the bed with various things still in them. My room is presentable now though but I'm really looking forward to December when we move into our apartment. It's going to great!
So, entertaining stuff that happened during the trip.
1. My bags were too heavy. One was 20kg and the other was 24.9kg. Luckily mum had lighter bags and could take some of my stuff. She did end up with a hand luggage bag of a similar mass to a bag of cement in her view but oh well.
2. The bus driver at Gatwick took everyone from the Guernsey flight we were on to the wrong place. We ended up in domestic arrivals instead of international arrivals. We had to take the bus back to the right place as that was where our bags were and we had to go through passport control. It's good arriving from Guernsey at Gatwick because you just hand in your boarding card and get to skip the queues.
What was the third entertaining thing? Oh yeah.....
3. I missed the train today! I booked a ticket on the machine for 12.11 to the place where my best friend lives. I then ran to the platform and when I got up there the train was just leaving. I was very annoyed. The one time the train leaves on time, I miss it. I then got another ticket for the next train which was at 13.11 so I had to wait around for ages. I did end up in the right place in the end but I barely recognised the area around the train station from when I lived there because there are so many new buildings. It was fun though.
GCSE results are out next Thursday. It will be interesting to see what I got. They don't matter for me but I still worked really hard so I want to know.

Bye banan!

Saturday, 10 August 2013

Of rafts and teddybears

Hi!

It was the harbour carnival yesterday. A great event with lots of stalls, food and fun. The main attraction is normally the man powered flight. The goal of the man powered flight is to reach Herm. It's very entertaining because most of the entries simply jump and don't get any flight time in. There is also a tug of war at the mouth of the harbour with one team ending up in the water each time. There is a ladies dinghy race, which I was roped into along with some friends at the last minute last year as a scouts team. The raft races are also very entertaining. The emergency services have raft races. This year entertainment value was added by the fire truck soaking the participants. 'twas most amusing.

Sad goodbyes

Hi!

I'm leaving Guernsey in a couple of days to move back to Sweden. As I've said earlier on here it's been very chaotic with all the packing and I've been very tired. It's very surprising how much stuff two people have when it's all packed up in boxes. Also, I officially hate cubic foot. Working it out is way too confusing and weird.
Anyway, I wanted to write about saying goodbye. Today I said goodbye to a friend of mine who has been an awesome friend to me for the past couple of years. A few days ago I went to a BBQ at a friends house which turned out to be a leaving BBQ for me. My friends are awesome and I'm going to miss them so much. I didn't quite realise how much until they showed me a video they had made which almost made me cry. Luckily we have Facebook, Skype, Email etc. to stay in touch with.
I'm still really excited to go back to Sweden but I've realised that I'm really going to miss all my friends.

Bye Banan!

Wednesday, 7 August 2013

Paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacking

Hi!

I have almost finished packing.
Yesterday I had one bag weighing 17kg and one weighing 22kg. Today, despite putting some of the stuff in removal boxes, I have one bag weighing 21kg and one weighing 19kg. It doesn't quite add up because the total yesterday was 39kg and today it's 40kg.
If I had tried checking them as 17kg and 22 kg respectively I would have asked to repack at the airport. I don't understand the point of this because it is still the same total mass. Oh well, at least we're not flying with that lovely budget airline *******. Rant over.
I leave the island in a week and I'm very excited!

Bye Banan!

Tuesday, 6 August 2013

Two weeks

Hi!

It is two weeks (which autocorrect wanted to change to weekends before I changed the language) until I start my new school in Sweden. I am very excited! My new school is absolutely massive compared to my current school. I will no longer have a school uniform (worth going just for that) and I will be studying Swedish for the first time since I was eight (nervous about that part).
I'm obviously sad about leaving Guernsey (well my friends) although there are some aspects I won't miss (*cough* constant roadworks *cough*).
I just had an idea for a new post so check back soon and it should be up.

Bye banan!

P.S. it would be greatly appreciated if You could go and like my Facebook page :)

Monday, 29 July 2013

Back in Guernsey

Hi!

I'm back!
Sunday was fun. Woke up in Germany, had breakfast in Belgium, lunch and dinner in France and went to bed in Guernsey. It was interesting.
Now I'm back in Guernsey for about two weeks. I've got to pack the rest of my stuff but I'm still really tired after night sailing. My body clock is all messed up from night sailing still.
I took some photos of the Normandy bridge which I might upload later.
I don't have anything interesting to say now so I'll sign off.

Bye banan!